The days are just packed

At the moment my tally for 2009 stands at 138 books. If I can force myself through the rest of The Secret History of Science Fiction by tomorrow night, it will be 139, but that book will not feature in this post regardless, so onward.

This was the year I rediscovered sff; hell, this was the year I rediscovered reading for fun. I very much hope that I can keep up the reading in 2010; my goal is to expand my reading range, as well as, in general, to read at least 100 books. We'll see. On that note...

Five 2010 books I want now: Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de BodardA Wizard of Mars by Diane DuaneLord Sunday by Garth NixCast in Chaos by Michelle SagaraCity of Night by Michelle West

With two prominent exceptions, all the non-fiction books I read this year were excellent, and are recommended. Relatedly, I didn't post about Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, but it's great, and I think it's a book (along with The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing) that every U.S.-ian should read.

All the links go to the Dreamwidth entries, but there may be more discussion on the LJ posts.

And beneath the cut, without links-back or italics,

the full list:

Title

Author

2666

Roberto Bolaño

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

A Companion to Wolves

Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear

A Warning to the Curious

M.R. James

A Wizard Abroad

Diane Duane

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Vladimir Nabokov

All the Windwracked Stars

Elizabeth Bear

Angels and Ages: A Short Book on Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

Adam Gopnik

Ash

Malinda Lo

Asterix in Britain

R. Goscinny & A. Uderzo

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

Julian Rubinstein

Bitter Angels

C.L. Anderson

Black Ships

Jo Graham

Bleach vol. 35

Kubo Taito

Bleach vol. 36

Kubo Taito

Blindness

José Saramago

Bloodhound

Tamora Pierce

By the Mountain Bound

Elizabeth Bear

Cast in Silence

Michelle Sagara

Chalice

Robin McKinley

Clockwork Phoenix

Mike Allen, ed.

Clockwork Phoenix 2

Mike Allen, ed.

Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Corambis

Sarah Monette

Dark North

Gillian Bradshaw

Doctor's Orders

Diane Duane

Dogs: Bullets & Carnage vol. 3

Miya Shirow

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Alexandra Fuller

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama

Dust

Elizabeth Bear

Europe Central

William T. Vollmann

Farthing

Jo Walton

Fast Ships, Black Sails

Jeff & Ann VanderMeer, eds.

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci, eds.

Glass Bead Games

Elise Matheson, ed.

God Stalk

P.C. Hodgell

Gouhou Drug vol. 1

CLAMP

Gouhou Drug vol. 2

CLAMP

Gouhou Drug vol. 3

CLAMP

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi vol. 21

Arakawa Hiromu

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi vol. 22

Arakawa Hiromu

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi vol. 23

Arakawa Hiromu

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi vol. 8

Arakawa Hiromu

Havemercy

Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett

Hokushin Denki vol. 1

Otsuka Eiji et al.

Intellivore

Diane Duane

Kobato vol. 3

CLAMP

Lavinia

Ursula K. LeGuin

Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld

Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography

William Lee Miller

Lovecraft Unbound

Ellen Datlow, ed.

Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees

Magic for Beginners

Kelly Link

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Michael Chabon

Melting Stones

Tamora Pierce

Melusiné

Sarah Monette

Moominsummer Madness

Tove Jansson

My Enemy, My Ally

Diane Duane

Nameless (draft)

copperbadge

Never Learn Anything from History

Kate Beaton

New Amsterdam

Elizabeth Bear

Odd and the Frost Giants

Neil Gaiman

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Azuma Hiroki

Palimpsest

Catherynne M. Valente

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

Pretty Monsters

Kelly Link

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Caroline Weber

Ribon no Kishi vol. 1

Tezuka Osamu

Ribon no Kishi vol. 2

Tezuka Osamu

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

Hugh Thomas

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime